Sarcastic replies are probably due to your question being not a question at all but an insult.
Let’s just go on the premise that “fancy robes” are ridiculous, vain, stupid, ugly, and were never used in the Bible. So what? Why do you care? Is it anyone’s business who is not Catholic?
This is our religion. Catholicism is a valid, respected religion that saves lives and reduces poverty and disease for millions of people and has for millennia. If we want our priests to wear strange hats, they can wear strange hats. That is not illegal yet in most free nations of the world.
What’s it too you anyway? If you are truly interested in the Faith, go to an RCIA class. If you just want to ridicule one of the great religions of the world, do it among your protestant friends.
Bashing religion is the ignorant person’s passtime. Respect freedom of religion, even if it includes garb you don’t understand. If you wished to understand, you would go to the library and get a few books on the history of the customs of the Church.
Insult? How is asking where the finery came from? How was it developed over time? You’re the one making the assumption that I’m calling those robes ridiculous. I NEVER said that. I simply asked a rhetorical question how did those robes or vestments develop into what they are today. You and others are the one’s who jumped to conclusions for my question. I know better in the future not to ask for a bit of information or knowledge seeing that it’s more important to insult than to answer.